Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a major city and coastal metropolis located in Miami-Dade County in southeastern Florida. Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and international trade. Downtown Miami has one of the largest concentrations of international banks in the United States and is home to many large national and international companies.[1] Nearby, Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from the mainland city of Miami.[2]
Coverage[]
Miami is featured in The Invaders.
Downtown Miami after 5 years without people.
Starting in 5 years after people, Miami's fate is tied to an invasion of water where the waves start eating away at Miami's coastline. Beneath the waves are dolphins that once swam among humans start to learn to use remnants of human civilization in their lives. At downtown Miami, it has a lot of new tenants where birds have taken over apartment buildings. However, chimpanzees that escaped from a local zoo have followed the birds into the tower to feast their eggs until a breakthrough has occurred.
Lygodium taking over a forest.
In 20 years after people, Miami are being buried by aggressively growing invasive plants like Brazilian pepper. Without people to stop its spread, it became a year-round threat to cities. Betsy Von Holle stated that without people, the Brazilian pepper would grow tall enough to overtop houses and Miami will become a jungle. The Brazilian pepper were joined by the invading waves of Lygodium that can grow to 100 feet. Betsy Von Holle stated that after the weathering create cracks on human structures, a little spore of the climbing fern seed inside and then grow up an entire building or across a bridge. She continues after 50 years, entire structures from buildings, bridges, and other structures would be covered by vines and over time the Lygodium pull down the structures down.
The Blue and Green Diamond after 100 years without people.
In 100 years after people, Miami, along with the nearby Miami Beach, has run out of beach. It then shows its history when it started in 1914 that developers began filing over 2,500 acres of mangrove swamp around a narrow coastal sandbar to create a high-end beach resort, but the creation contained the seeds of its destruction. Tommy Strowd stated as coastal structures are constructed, it interrupts the natural flow of sand along the coastline of South Florida causing it to produce a deficit of sand requiring extensive replenishment. By the late 20th century, much of the coast had been eaten away and some hotels lost 80% of their beachfront. In the time of humans, engineers trucked in millions of tons of new sand in a battle against time and the Atlantic starting in the 1970s. After a century, the invading ocean is unopposed and it reaches under the foundations of once-luxurious hotels. Tommy Strowd stated after 100 years or longer, the buildings would start to collapse. One of the hotels, the Blue and Green Diamond, collapses, along with the rest of the former vacation palaces where they fall into each other and topple at last into the waiting grasp of the Atlantic Ocean.
The fate of Miami is revealed that in 200 years, the skyline is gone, only a few structures remains and a few rusted girders still point skywards.
Transformation[]
The skyline of Miami after 200 years.
As it said at The Invaders, Miami would be transformed into a sub-tropical forest and being consumed by the Atlantic Ocean, along with Miami Beach, in under 200 years. Invasive species would overtaken the entire city with Brazilian pepper and Lygodium taking over Miami and its suburbs which may contribute to the sub-tropical environment. It is speculated that the skyscrapers, like mentioned in the documentary at New York City, would become hills as shown visually that the few skyscrapers of Miami still remains.
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